Bug#644669: freebsd-utils: Consider importing iostat from upstream

2011-10-08 Thread Robert Millan
2011/10/8 Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se: A priori the package sysstat installs the file /usr/bin/iostat at the most natural location for Debian. Observe, however, that FreeBSD locates its native executable in /usr/sbin/iostat. Does sysstat even work on kernels other than

Bug#644669: freebsd-utils: Consider importing iostat from upstream

2011-10-08 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
lördag den 8 oktober 2011 klockan 13:55 skrev Robert Millan detta: 2011/10/8 Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se: A priori the package sysstat installs the file /usr/bin/iostat at the most natural location for Debian. Observe, however, that FreeBSD locates its native

Bug#644669: freebsd-utils: Consider importing iostat from upstream

2011-10-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 01:50:19 +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: in order to avoid the conflict with sysstat. However, the [...] Could you explain this conflict in more detail? Why can't iostat be in /usr/bin? A priori the package sysstat installs the file /usr/bin/iostat at

Bug#644669: freebsd-utils: Consider importing iostat from upstream

2011-10-07 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Package: freebsd-utils Version: 8.2+ds2-5 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please consider including FreeBSD's own iostat in this package. Until I have finished writing the addition of diskstats to linprocfs, the package netstat produces an executable iostat which gives no information at all about

Bug#644669: freebsd-utils: Consider importing iostat from upstream

2011-10-07 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Mats, 2011/10/8 Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se: The present patch takes the upstream code and deposits the executable as    /lib/freebsd/iostat in order to avoid the conflict with sysstat. However, the corresponding manual page is not installed by the patch.

Bug#644669: freebsd-utils: Consider importing iostat from upstream

2011-10-07 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
in order to avoid the conflict with sysstat. However, the [...] Could you explain this conflict in more detail? Why can't iostat be in /usr/bin? A priori the package sysstat installs the file /usr/bin/iostat at the most natural location for Debian. Observe, however, that FreeBSD locates